Bio: Helen is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist from New Zealand, based in Germany. She holds a Master of Arts (Research) investigating cyberformance - live performance on the internet – which she has practiced for over a decade. She is a founding member of the cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision, co-founder of UpStage, an open source platform for cyberformance, and co-curator of international online festivals and events. She is a board member of the open source documentation platform FLOSS Manuals, and "web queen" of the Magdalena Project, an international network of women in contemporary theatre.

Setting the Agenda

Helen will talk about her experience running both offline and online workshops. She will also talk generally about collaborating online to organize and prepare workshops that are run in face-to-face settings. She will address the differences and similarities between online and offline workshops, pointing to the strengths and weaknesses of both.